.25wssm

I have a buddy getting ready to buy a winchester model 70 in the 25 wssm. I wanted to know if anyone knew anything about this new cartridge. he is planning on using it for deer/coyote hunting adn is wondering what kind of performance he should expect from this gun. he was also considering the .243 wssm but some one told him he would be better off with the 25wssm.

Romad,
I shot the .25 at the SHOT show for a few hours during a writer show&tell. The cartridge was fast, flat out to the 425 yard targets we were working on and very easy on the shoulder. I only shot it the one session but the rifles we had available, M-70's, fed smoothly and hit very consistently. It does not do anything that a .257 Roberts or .25-06 can do, maybe it fits into the middle of those two. Very neat little action and rifle, would make a nice deer/antelope/yote carrying rifle.
No magic, just a nice shooting little cartridge and rifles. There is something about walking up to a shooting bench that has a brand new rifle and a case of ammo on it that makes me grin [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

I was very dissappointed with Winchesters decision to go with the wssm case for the .257" In my opinion, which may not be worth much, they would have been better off using the wsm case and getting performance near, equal, or greater than the .257 Weatherby. Anybody else see it this way?